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The original Femco Farm No. 1 is located five miles (8 km) north of Breckenridge, Minnesota. Though its structures are quite dilapidated, it is readily visible from U.S. Route 75. Femco Farm No. 2 is in Roberts Township just north of Kent. Farm No. 3 was in Mitchell Township, No. 4 was located just north of No. 1, and No. 5 was in Manston ...
The Alfred R. Voss Farmstead is a historic farm in Rosendale Township, Minnesota, United States.It was established in the early 1880s by Alfred R. Voss (1860–1952) and grew to become one of the largest private farming operations in late-19th-century southern Minnesota.
Marshall is a city in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,628 at the 2020 census, [4] and 13,906 as of 2023 estimates. [7] Marshall is a regional center in southwest Minnesota, and the county seat of Lyon County. [8] It is the headquarters of the Schwan Food Company and the home of Southwest Minnesota State University.
October 7, 2011 (5209 County Road 21 NE: Farmington Township: Circa-1875 example of the timber-framed, three-bay barns built during a decade of increased agriculture in Olmsted County and a shift from wheat to diversified farming across southeast Minnesota.
The Swensson Farm Museum is a historic farmstead located in Chippewa County, Minnesota, six miles (10 km) east of Montevideo.Established by Norwegian immigrants Olof and Ingeborg Swensson in the 1880s, the farmstead today serves as open-air museum operated by the Chippewa County Historical Society showcasing pioneer life and Swedish-American heritage.
They were quite isolated, 40 miles (64 km) from the nearest settlement and even farther from any sizeable town; it was over 60 miles (97 km) east to New Ulm or 70 miles (110 km) southwest to Sioux Falls. [3] The first homesteaders arrived in 1855. By 1862 at least 9 families had cabins spread along 5 miles (8.0 km) of lakeshore. [4]
Since the land was no longer a working farm, the farmhouse was in a process of decay, and trees had begun to grow in the former pastureland. [4] In 1993, the Minnesota Historical Society noticed that the state was losing historic agricultural sites, and it identified the Grimm farm as a high priority for stabilization and preservation. [2]
Crosby Farm is a regional park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, in the floodplain forests along the Mississippi River. It is named after a farmstead Thomas Crosby owned from 1858 to 1886. Crosby Farm Regional Park is maintained by the City of Saint Paul and is within the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. [2]